Re: Why doesn't NetBSD recognize my entries in /etc/hosts?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 17 September 2015 at 06:54, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:56:56PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>> There are third party lists of domains that are either malware or
>> nasty tracing cookies, this is one of them:
>> http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
>
> I tried with one entry from that file and it works fine for me:
>
>> ping mfr.a2dfp.net
> PING mfr.a2dfp.net (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.111.42: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.366921 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.111.42: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.328004 ms
> ...
>
> This is my gateway answering (as expected).
>
> I have
>
>         lookup file bind
>
> in /etc/resolv.conf and default /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> Martin

Then there might be a problem with my pc. I am not on the machine
right now. I'll "cat" my files later on.

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Ottavio